The horsemanship the
Yamnaya brought to
Europe lives on in their
native region. A rider
at the Zaporizhzhya
Cossack Museum on
Ukraine’s Khortytsya
Island demonstrates
the acrobatic skills that
made the Cossacks
such feared warriors
from the 1400s on.
NEW GENETIC TESTING
OF ANCIENT SETTLERS’ REMAINS IS REVEALING
THAT EUROPE HAS LONG BEEN
A MELTING POT, MADE UP OF IMMIGRANT BLOODLINES
FROM AFRICA, THE MIDDLE EAST, AND THE
GRASSY PLAINS OF TODAY’S RUSSIA.
BY Andrew Curry
PHOTOGRAPHS BY Rémi Bénali
WHO WERE
THE FIRST
WHO WERE
THE FIRST
EUROPEANS?